Freelancers

Contractly for Freelancers: Sixteen plain-language contract templates you fill in and own

Sixteen plain-language contract templates you fill in and own.

Freelancers expense a dozen subscriptions — proposals, contracts, invoices, time tracking — against irregular income. Owning the tools outright removes a whole line of fixed costs.

The tool this job usually means renting is PandaDoc, at $19+/user/mo — roughly $228 a year, every year. Contractly does the job for a one-time $29 — running locally on your own machine.

Fit check

Why it fits how freelancers work

📚 16 bundled templates

NDAs, freelance and consulting agreements, retainers, SOWs, releases and more across 6 categories.

For freelancers, 16 bundled templates pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $29, not metered per month.

🔤 Fill-in-the-blanks variables

Placeholders become a form panel — type once and the document updates live with a filled/blank progress counter.

For freelancers, fill-in-the-blanks variables pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $29, not metered per month.

✍️ Edit the contract body

A rich-text editor for bold, italic, headings and lists lets you customize clauses and insert your own variables anywhere.

For freelancers, edit the contract body pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $29, not metered per month.

Workflow

A typical workflow

STEP 01

Buy once on Whop

One payment of $29 gets you the signed Windows installer, or clone the MIT source and build it yourself for free.

STEP 02

Fill in the blanks

Pick a template, type into the form panel, and edit clauses in the rich-text editor as the document updates live.

STEP 03

Export the PDF

Print a clean Letter PDF, or hand the merged HTML to Inkseal when you need signatures.

What it costs, honestly

Contractly is $29, once. PandaDoc at $19+/user/mo — roughly $228 a year, every year. Turns a $19-a-month subscription into a one-time purchase somewhere around the twentieth NDA.

FAQ

Freelancers ask

Is Contractly worth it for freelancers?

Turns a $19-a-month subscription into a one-time purchase somewhere around the twentieth NDA. Contractly costs $29 once; PandaDoc charges $19+/user/mo — about $228 a year. For freelancers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.

Is it really free on GitHub?

Yes — Contractly is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/contract-templates-mvp. The $29 buys the signed Windows installer; building from source is free.

Does my contract data leave my machine?

No. Contractly is 100% local — everything lives in one human-readable JSON file in your user-data folder, with no account, cloud or telemetry.

Own Contractly forever — $29